Readers' Choice Awards 2015: The winners

Readers' Choice Awards 2015: The Winners

At the end of last year we asked you to vote for the best cameras and lenses of 2015. Across two rounds of voting DPReview readers did just that, selecting the top overall photography products of 2015. It was no easy feat, as 2015 brought huge advancements in stills and video technology, but with thousands of votes tallied it's time to declare a winner. See how the votes stacked up.

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Wow DPR fam, you mean that a community-based poll isn't an objective, scientifically verified research design that will inform me of what is truly the best camera that deserves an award??? How deceived I am! Woe is I, the lonely, uneducated internet wanderer who does not know any better. Shame on DPR for releasing such subjectively marred garbage.

Volume sales? If something is marketed well and sells well?....So I guess McDonalds is the best restaurant right?

If you look at the Peoples Choice award as being both owned by people and or desired by people - that's somewhat valuable information. Then add in sales perhaps to get a complete picture....but again all of this is only a guide to help people chose what works best for them.

If there was only 1 best camera...there would only be ONE CAMERA. But price and features and competition between brands give all of us wonderful choice.

For these top 3 cameras, only Olympus has a vast and mature lens lineup. Sony has 3 maybe 4 decent lenses (all of them prime) and Nikon DX lenses are cheaply made and got less than desirable optics.On the other hand Olympus Pro and some of the Panasonic lenses are solid and very hi-end in all the aspects.

It only really matters if you actually want to purchase a vast and mature lens lineup. The lenses you don't buy, don't really matter if you have the ones that work for you. I use Canon FD and Sony lenses on my A7 and FD, OM, and Zuiko lenses on Olympus. It all depends what you are looking for. Personally, I think I could be very happy with just a couple of Batis and Sony primes on an A7rii and a couple of zooms on a forthcoming E-M2, but it matters little (as does the lens lineup) if one can't afford to have it all--and few people can. Those that can may choose to buy the lenses they really want and the bodies that match them. Polycameraism. It ain't marriage.

You must be very new to DSLR - Nikon and Canon have the largest lens collections bar none - you don't have to limit yourself to the Nikon DX line - only your money and your desirability are the limits - vast array of third party lenses also available including the Zeiss Otuses - arguably the best in business.

@mais51 3rd party lenses are available for all the cameras (eg Voigtlander for m4/3). And expensive and heavy Nikon FX lenses doesn't make sense on a cheap and light DX body. I was talking about factory specific DX lineup. for example if you want a wide zoom for a D7200 , you can only get the seven years old 10-24. On the other hand, with Micro 4/3 you have the option of Oly 9-18, Oly 7-14 PRO, and Pany 7-14.

@DavudNikon DX cameras can use ALL Nikon lenses - there is no reason for you just sticking to the DX lenses. When I was shooting DX the two DX lens I had were the kit lens AFS 18-70DX and latter AFS 16-85DX, every other lenses are FX - My AFS 24/120 F4 was permanently fixed to the D300s.

The Micro 4/3 crop factor is 2 therefore your 9-18 is equivalent to a 18-36 FX, 7-14 = 14-28FX - not so wide after all. On the other hand Nikon 10-24 is equivalent to a 15-36 FX so now we are only 1mm behind.

The godly cameras typically sit in the super-top spot: in the place 0 (zero). Because there is no point in comparing them to the mere mortal cameras. But I personally prefer Canon 5D Mark VIII for the included ice maker and the built-in whisky flask. Taking pictures never was that pleasurable.

Not exactly surprising results considering you presented only a handful of options with some brands not represented at all. I thought the Pentax K3 II was the best APS-C of the year, funny enough that was not an option. How hard can it be to provide a range of options >7?!

The K-3 II was included in one of the four polls of the first voting round. It got 6.8% of the votes and didn't make it to the second round. The first round included 36 cameras and 16 lenses, so a few more than a handful.

You can see Pentax cameras wining "real reviewers" contests, but when you leave the choise to the masses just the popular ones will come up.. and that doenst mean that are the best.. it just means that are the most popular at the moment... samething happen with the music industry, etc, etc..

D500 is not a revolutionary improvement. Nikon put the AF system from their latest flagship FF camera in a pro-grade APS-C body, just like they did with the D300. It's the latest iteration of the same concept. A revolution, IMHO, should offer something truly new and unique, not just the latest and greatest example of current technology.

-there was never a DSLR camera with edge to edge AF-No DSLR to support -3ev for all AF points as well as -4ev ,-first to have buffer not to worry about,- one of the first DSLRs to shoot 4k video- a very good new sensor(yes I've tried and compared)-auto af fine tune- other things you may calll minor, like OVF, bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi etc, etc

Yes, those are all great improvements, but they are incremental improvements of technology already used in cameras. That's evolutionary, not revolutionary.Just to clarify, I'm not critisizing the D500 here. I just think that 'revolutionary' is the wrong word to describe it.

If you see DXO sensor numbers, its rated as one of the top five dslr with the best DR, over several FF cameras. Most of reviews i have read dont talk about how good is the DR, and the room for shadows recovery.... this might be the right camera for my landscape/travel shooting.

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